“Hiding the impacts of climate change won’t stop it from happening, it will just make us far less prepared when it does,” one fired contractor said. In its latest attack on climate science, the Trump administration has fired everyone who produced content for Climate.gov, the public-facing website for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate […]
Kodiak fisherman sentenced to prison and banned from fishing for trafficking diseased crab. NOAA Fisheries Office of Law Enforcement led an investigation that resulted in a Kodiak fisherman being sentenced to prison for illegally trafficking diseased crab from Alaska to Washington. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Alaska handled the successful prosecution. On May […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, today pressed the nominee to serve as deputy secretary of the Department of Commerce, Mr. Paul Dabbar, on concerns about the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) ability to complete fisheries stock surveys in Alaska if staffing and approved funding […]
A 30-day comment period is now open. We will also host two public listening sessions to gather input NOAA Fisheries filed a Notice of Availability releasing the preliminary results of the marine spatial planning study. It includes the identification of draft Aquaculture Opportunity Area options within state waters of Southeast, Southcentral, and Southwest Alaska as […]